On 19th December 2025, the Building Safety Regulator issued a letter to principal accountable persons and building owners to draw attention to certain risks that have been identified with reinforced ...

About an hour-and-a-half drive east of Reykjavík, Iceland, is the ecovillage of Sólheimar. Sesselja Sigmundsdóttir started the community in 1930 as a foster home for children with mental challenges. A ...

First, it was Liquid Glass. Then it was the icons. And then it was the icons again (though it’s a different set of icons). Now, there’s something else about macOS Tahoe’s redesign that annoys the heck ...

This paper assesses the influence of slab continuity on the punching resistance of a realistically proportioned flat slab floor plate without shear reinforcement. The edge column punching resistance ...

The state is launching a design contest to encourage the construction of accessory dwelling units and increase the housing supply across Massachusetts. Winning designs will be made available online so ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sales of Apple’s iPhone Air, the biggest shake-up to its smartphone design in years, have been worse than ...

SINGAPORE – The owners of this home have been together since their polytechnic days – long enough for them to learn what they like and how they want to live. When the couple, both spatial designers in ...

Once seen as a preserve of coastal architecture, flat roofs have become a must-have in Kenya. But are flat roofs really designed to withstand the country’s diverse climatic conditions? This design was ...

Because standards are intentionally conservative for most projects, but new design methods are changing, project-specific design optimization is required to provide safe, cost-effective, and ...

What if you could transform your design projects with a single, versatile toolkit? Enter the world of flat graphic design, a style celebrated for its bold simplicity and unparalleled clarity. In the ...

How important is a toggle? You probably haven’t given much thought to those little settings sliders that you find scattered throughout iOS. But what if a toggle can shine a light on how a system is ...